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This Saturday – March 24 – Occupy in NYC

Posted on March 22, 2012 by kwilder

Also, Sat. March 24th on Long Island:
A peace, justice, occupy event
12:15 in Port Jefferson
Info: here.
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Let Freedom Spring!
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly must resign!

The 1%’s police proxies have been attempting to suppress our peaceful protests, sparking a response we haven’t seen since last September.

But we need your help! Our best defense is a strong offense, and mass turnout at this time will protect our movement as the action-packed ‘American Spring’ bursts into the streets.

Join us this Saturday at 12pm in Liberty Square and call for NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s resignation.

March with us to our newest location at #OccupyUnionSq in solidarity with the communities across New York City who have long felt the wrath of Mayor Bloomberg’s “private army”.

More info at:
http://tech.nycga.net/2012/03/22/letfreedomspring-this-saturday/

Spread the word, and let’s occupy together to #LetFreedomSpring!

You can help: Read more »

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NYCLU Sues Nassau County to Establish Jail Oversight Board

Posted on March 22, 2012 by iwilder

This news is posted in remembrance of a local treasure, Susan Blake, who was protesting the conditions at the Nassau Jail before anyone was paying attention.  Susan, you are missed.

Following the recent suicide of an Iraq war veteran housed at the Nassau County Correctional Center – the fifth inmate suicide in less than two years – the New York Civil Liberties Union  filed a lawsuit to compel county officials to comply with a 22-year-old unfulfilled charter mandate to establish an independent board charged with overseeing and reforming conditions at the jail.

Samantha Fredrickson, director of the NYCLU’s Nassau County Chapter  said:

Tragically, a stay at the Nassau County Jail can become a death sentence for the 11,000 people a year who are housed there awaiting trial or serving time for minor offenses. Since Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has turned a blind eye to this disturbing reality, we have no choice but to ask the court to compel the county to take this initial step toward finally treating people housed at the jail with basic human dignity.

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Prez Cand Roseanne Barr (G) first campaign appearance 3/23/12

Posted on March 22, 2012 by iwilder
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROSEANNE BARR TO DELIVER KEYNOTE AT ‘RALLY IN THE VALLEY’ WITH LOCAL GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES

Comedian-turned-presidential-candidate Roseanne Barr, whose name will appear on the California Primary Ballot as a Green Party candidate for President of the United States, will be appearing at a “Rally in the Valley” for local Greens and LA-area Green Party congressional candidates, Michael Powleson, David Steinman, and Anthony Vierya.

The Green Party’s ‘Rally in the Valley’ known as, “Behold, the Greening of America!,” will take place on Friday, March 23rd at 7pm at the Mayflower Club, located at 11110 Victory Blvd. (just west of Vineland) in North Hollywood.

Former congressional candidate, and well-known progressive, Marcy Winograd, will be a guest speaker, with Roseanne appearing as the keynote speaker for the event.

Winograd, famously challenged former Congresswoman, Jane Harman, for her seat in Congress as an anti-war progressive Democrat, but switched from the Democratic Party to the Green Party earlier this year. She will be speaking about why she switched political parties at the event.  Read more »

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Green Party of Suffolk meeting prepares for Presidential Campaign

Posted on March 19, 2012 by iwilder

Green Party of SuffolkThe Green Party of Suffolk invites all enrolled Green Party members to come to their annual membership meeting to prepare for this year’s Presidential Campaign.  The meeting will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012.  It will start at 11am at the Stony Brook Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 380 Nicolls Road,  E. Setauket.  (Directions: http://www.uufsb.org/).  For more information about the Green Party, or about the April meeting, please contact Suffolk Chair Roger Snyder at (631) 351-5763. Or, go to the web-site: www.gpsuffolk.org.  Facebook event can be found here.

With an automatic ballot line in New York, the Green Party of Suffolk will join with states across the country in putting their Presidential candidate on the November ballot.  Representatives from the Presidential campaigns and the Green Party US Senate campaigns have been invited to speak at the meeting.  Read more »

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Julian Assange of Wikileaks to run for Senate

Posted on March 18, 2012 by kwilder

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from Common Dreams
Wikileaks’ Assange to Run for Australian Senate Seat
Saturday, March 17, 2012 by Common Dreams Staff

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has decided to run for a seat in the Australian senate next year.

Wikileaks made the announcement on Twitter yesterday. It Tweeted shortly after that the group would be fielding a candidate to run against Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her home seat.

Assange, who is an Australian citizen, [and a whistle-blower against war and war crimes] is currently under house arrest in England facing possible extradition to Sweden…

Onthewilderside Julian Assange tribute video and comments at the jump… Read more »

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Green Party seeks abolition of Prison Nation and Police State abuses in the US

Posted on March 18, 2012 by iwilder

Greens promote sane justice system and security policies, including a halt to the War on Drugs and constitutional violations

Darryl! Moch

Darryl! Moch

As more and more Americans express alarm at the curtailment of rights and privacy and the increasing numbers of citizens locked up in prison, Green Party candidates and leaders are calling for rational security, law enforcement, and justice system policies.

“The US cannot be called a ‘free country’ as long as Prison Nation and Police State abuses are allowed to continue,” said Darryl! Moch, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. “The War on Drugs, privatized prisons, and other outrages have led to America’s record-high incarceration rate, with the proportionally highest prison population in the world. Racial disparities in arrests and sentencing have devastated black and brown communities. Instead of providing safety and civic peace, these policies have eroded our freedoms, safety, and the rule of law.”

Greens pointed to bipartisan landmarks in the growth of the Prison Industrial Complex and erosion of the US Constitution:  Read more »

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Last Night: Police rise to new level of abuse and violence against Occupy demonstrators

Posted on March 18, 2012 by kwilder

Two things:

One: I believe that one reason the NYPD was as arrogant and violent as they were last night, is because of new policies and legislation passed by Obama and Congress in the last few weeks. People need to slow down and check out what our entire government – both parties – have been doing to change our rights as citizens and human beings in this country. [See NDAA info here. See HR 347 info: here.]

Two: For people who think they are okay and safe from police abuse because they won’t demonstrate, or get in trouble with the police: You see what the police are doing to these demonstrators? — accidentally shoving, casually breaking glass with their heads, standing by while someone they arrest has a seizure, barricading people in and out of public spaces — that is what they are going to do to you when there is a little commotion on the bread line or the gas line. (And, the bread line and the gas line are coming up for a lot of us. Know anyone who is unemployed? Know anyone who is losing their home?)

I was watching live video of the march last night. I heard someone describe seeing a woman have a seizure while police kept certified medics away. I was not sure if I could believe such an atrocity happened. The story is in the NY Times today. If you read between the lines, you can see the police were slow to act when the woman needed medical attention.

Story at OccupyWallSt.org: here.
Updated: Occupiers Retake Liberty Square, Celebrate 6 Months of #OWS Read more »

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Green Party Slams Cuomo, Lawmakers for Midnight Sellout of New Yorkers

Posted on March 17, 2012 by iwilder

The Green Party of New York blasted Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers for their middle of the night votes to continue gerrymandering of state legislative districts in exchange for passing Cuomo’s assault on the pension benefits of government workers.

The Greens also opposed the deal on casino gambling and the DNA database.

“Cuomo’s push on on Tier VI is just the latest chapter in his game of class warfare, attacking public employees while refusing to close corporate tax loopholes or make his wealthy campaign contributors pay their fair share of taxes. The real bottom line in the pension fight was to slash retirement benefits for the one segment of our society that still is protected by pensions. If he wants to help local governments and taxpayers, he should tax Wall Street to clean up the mess they created,”said Howie Hawkins, Green Party co-chair.  Read more »

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Happy St. Pat’s Day: What’s green on Long Island?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by kwilder

Ian and I woke up early today. So, we have already gathered some images of green for this lovely, sunny, St. Patrick’s Day. Full set at Flickr: here and with story below.

What’s Green on Long Island?

The soccer fields:

Soccer in North Babylon: 3/17/2012

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The soccer players:

Green haired soccer players

A girls soccer team celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with green hair.
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Cookies at the luncheonette: Read more »

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NY DNA Databank Expansion Long on Politics, Short on Justice

Posted on March 17, 2012 by iwilder

The leadership of the New York Civil Liberties Union today denounced the State Legislature’s passage of legislation allowing police to collect a genetic sample of every person convicted of any crime in New York State, saying the measure will do little to enhance public safety while increasing the likelihood of wrongful convictions and flawed prosecutions.

NYCLU Legislative Director Robert Perry  said:

The bill isn’t in the service of justice or fairness but rather in the interest of expanding the databank. It will have a negligible impact on enhancing public safety but increase significantly the likelihood for inefficiency error and abuse in the collection and handling of forensic DNA.

Politics drove this debate, not good science or sound public policy analysis. Any forensics expert will tell you that including genetic samples of every person ever convicted of a misdemeanor in the DNA databank won’t lead to more effective law enforcement, but it will almost certainly increase inefficiency, errors and abuse.

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1 Year after Fukushima, Prez Cand Stein (G) calls for 100% renewable energy economy

Posted on March 16, 2012 by iwilder

Jill SteinGreen Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein   marked the first anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown, and the resultant deaths and estimated $250 billion in cleanup costs, by calling for a Green New Deal to begin an immediate move to a 100% renewable energy economy. Dr. Stein said the Obama White House “has shown it has learned nothing” by promoting nuclear power plants at a time when much of the world is shifting away from them after the Japanese nuclear disaster.

Stein said:

A Green president would invest in wind, solar and geothermal, emphasize efficiency and conservation, phase out nuclear power plants, and move to a carbon-free economy to deal with climate change. We would immediately end Obama’s expensive subsidies for nuclear power as well as fossil fuels, and use those funds instead to kick off a job-producing energy program based on clean, safe and renewable energy,

Stein said she would push for the immediate shutdown of the 23 Fukushima-style GE Mark I reactors as the first step in moving to a nuclear-free America.  Read more »

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Celebrate Occupy’s 6 Month Anniversary: NYC on Saturday, March 17th (St. Pat’s Day)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by kwilder

LATE NIGHT UPDATE
3/18/2012 at about one in the morning:
People are still marching as of 12:45am
Arrests and problematic police interactions
Best LIVE VIDEO links are at occupywallst.org: here.

3/17/2012 – Update – as of 4:34pm –

Live Video from “occupy musician” : here.

Live Video cuts from “global revolution” : here.

Watch! Go there if you are close! Some people say the police seem to be putting them in barricades.

Two celebrations on this wonderful, St. Patrick’s Day 2012: St. Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland! And, Occupy Wall Street tries to banish the corporations from our government! If he can do it, we can do it!

It is hoped that people from far and wide will gather in NYC to celebrate the 6 month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Hope some folks from Long Island can make the trip in for the big occasion.

Saturday, March 17th, Occupy Wall Street, New York City events

Occupy Wall Street
6th Month Anniversary Celebrations in NYC
Saturday, March 17, 2012

From 11am to 1pm
Children’s Chalkupation
See FB event here and info below*

1:00pm Silent Procession
Gather at Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park Read more »

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Sat March 24, 2012: Long Island peace, justice, occupy event

Posted on March 13, 2012 by kwilder

Update: The event was a success. Photos from the rally afterwards are at Flickr:here.
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A March and Vigil
for
Peace and Economic Justice

On this 9th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we mourn and resist the ravages of war.

We stand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement as we call for an end to the growing corporate take-over of our Democracy.

Join us as we peacefully assemble and march.

Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York
Saturday, March 24, 2012
12:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Rain or Shine

12:15 p.m. Assemble at intersection of Rt. 112 (Main St.) and Rt. 25A (blinking light, across from ferry) in Port Jefferson Village (NOTE new location) Read more »

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Human Color poetry anthology call-out

Posted on March 11, 2012 by iwilder

The Human Colorfrom The Human Color

The Human Color is calling on you to speak out and submit your poetry to its first edition of Heritage, a poetry anthology about issues of race, identity, culture, and humanity.

We are honored to have our first inaugural edition of Heritage be edited by three very talented and prolific poets: Ms. Mahogany Browne, Mr. Regie Cabico, and Ms. Karen Jaime.

We are launching Heritage with The Human Color itself as the creative prompt. What is “The Human Color,” and what does it mean to you? What kind of world does it represent and how is this world similar or different to our present? What are some hopeful signs that we are moving toward such a future, or what are some present problems that indicate that such a move is necessary and important? How do notions of race affect the way we view and treat one another, and how can a universal symbol like The Human Color help change it for the better? Please feel free to address some or all of these questions and use them as an inspirational springboard to define The Human Color for yourself and for all of us. Also, please try to avoid using the actual phrase “The Human Color” in your poem.

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